So the book burning begins. Streaming service Netflix has started to remove movies. Time to rename it Notflix. Stranger things have happened. Though perhaps Stranger Things has crossed some imaginary line that will see it pulled soon enough. And I don’t know how they’ll go with that adult cartoon wonder, Bojack Horseman which pretty much […]
Well the inevitable result of the refusal by state governments and law enforcement agencies to enforce social distancing laws at the BLM protests has arrived, with the news that many businesses are going to openly defy the law, given others have gotten away with it without censure. Read what The Australian newspaper reports about the […]
The bold prediction by atheist gadfly and newspaper columnist, Peter Fitzsimmons that COVID-19 would deal a blow to religion because older people – who were more at risk – were more religious, has been gloriously exposed as wishful thinking. If truth be told, despite the suffering (or perhaps because of it?) the church has received […]
Beware of any religious types who roll up in a DeLorean promising time travel to either a nostalgic past or a pristine future (James KA Smith) One of the biggest traps earnest Christians fall into in their search for authentic expressions of church, is to follow the siren call of those who offer an expression […]
Ok, So I haven’t blogged for a bit. That’s unusual for me. I’m a blog a day kinda guy and that has fallen by the wayside the last month. I haven’t blogged for a bit is like me not going for a run for a bit. It doesn’t happen. Except at the moment it is […]
We’ve all gone down some rabbit holes during lockdown. My particular rabbit hole has been music reaction videos. That’s right. I’ve spent way too much time locked up at home watching funky young hip hop and rap dudes reacting to classic rock and pop songs that were delivered way before they were. And being astounded […]
What happens to love in a time of war? Do we become more compassionate and loving towards others or less so? What about this COVID-19 pandemic? What has it revealed about the way we love, what we love, and if, as David Brooks asserts in the New York Times, “pandemics kill compassion too”? Here’s the […]
Here’s a selection of the latest material on the Third Space website. First up, a new podcast hosted on the Eternity Podcast site, called Life in Wartime, featuring me with my colleague from Third Space, David Robertson. In this introductory episode we explore the similarities (and differences0 between our time in COVID-19 and the start […]
It seems sadly ironic that the national review announced today into the history of abuse by leadership within The Crowded House church network contains ten points. Why so? Because The Crowded House itself has historically had a list of ten values that it claimed shaped its life and ministry. The list of ten – a […]
Should churches, as not-for-profits, access the Australian Government’s JobKeeper scheme in order to keep staff if their giving decreases during the COVIC-19 shutdown and beyond? That’s a question that I have heard doing the rounds. Is it the right thing to do? Is it the wrong thing to do? What is at stake if we […]
